Dear all,
I am working on my 'Atomes' package (non official yet) and I kindly ask
for your advise.
I have a question regarding my spec file:
https://github.com/Slookeur/Atomes-GNU/blob/main/atomes.spec
I recently figured out how to handle file associations and creating my
custom MIME type.
To do that I created an 'atomes-mime.xml' file:
https://github.com/Slookeur/Atomes-GNU/blob/main/metadata/atomes-mime.xml
that I installed in the '/usr/share/mime/packages/' directory,
and after that I updated the MIME database using:
update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
It works just as expected, but this should be obvious to many I guess.
However the first time I tried to build the RPM it failed, because this
last command creates
and/or modify a bunch of files in the '/usr/share/mime' and
'/usr/share/applications' folders:
/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
/usr/share/mime/XMLnamespaces
/usr/share/mime/aliases
/usr/share/mime/application/x-apf.xml
/usr/share/mime/application/x-awf.xml
/usr/share/mime/generic-icons
/usr/share/mime/globs
/usr/share/mime/globs2
/usr/share/mime/icons
/usr/share/mime/magic
/usr/share/mime/mime.cache
/usr/share/mime/packages/atomes-mime.xml
/usr/share/mime/subclasses
/usr/share/mime/treemagic
/usr/share/mime/types
/usr/share/mime/version
So I add to correct the spec file to include these files, I did it like
this:
%{_datadir}/mime
%{_datadir}/applications
So that all files that my build creates in these folders will be added
properly to the RPM.
Now comes my question: some of these files seem to be configuration
files, that the 'update-mime-database'
simply updates, so I am not confident in saying that these should be
installed by my RPM,
it might just be better to have these files simply updated after the
installation, but I do not know how.
I tried to remove the 'update-mime-database' from the 'Makefile.am' (the
project uses GNU autotools)
and put it in the '%check' section of the spec file but it does not work
(same issue).
So far the RPM builds everywhere (local, Copr, Koji) but I am not sure
that it is correct, what do you think ?
Thanks in advance for your advise.
Best regards.
Sébastien
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Dr. Sébastien Le Roux
Ingénieur de Recherche CNRS
Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg
Département des Matériaux Organiques
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F-67034 Strasbourg Cedex 2, France
E-mail:sebastien.leroux@ipcms.unistra.fr
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